Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Dean Acheson waited for ten minutes before Chairman Tom Connally showed up, then waited ten minutes more for enough other committeemen to make a quorum. Finally Connally snapped at an attendant: "Go out and see if you can find any more Senators wandering around, and bring them...
...Hall of the Consistory. As soon as he ascended the papal throne, the Prefect of the APostolic Ceremonial asked all outsiders to leave. Then the prefect himself withdrew. In extraordinary consistory, the Pope was alone with 16 cardinals of the church who were seated on wooden benches around the throne. The Pope spoke to them in a quiet, incisive voice...
...narrower frame of U.S.-Canadian defense, two questions were up for discussion. Would the U.S. radar network be extended around Canada's Arctic? St. Laurent was worried about the cost-he had seen some plans for electronic expenditures so vast that they would leave no money for anything else. He promised that his government would respect U.S. leases on three Newfoundland bases when that island joins Canada on March 31. PM St. Laurent hoped that the U.S. would in turn respect Canada's rights, treating her "on a plane of equality...
Moscow's Pravda had hounded Soviet writers, painters, composers and architects in turn. Last week the paper got around to art critics. The critics, Pravda barked, had "nothing in their souls but bad breath and inflated conceit ... it is imperative to put an end, once and for all, to liberal toleration of all these esthetic cosmopolitans who lack a healthy love of country...
...under a stuffed deer's head), and that the stories Koerner told were unrelievedly grim. In one painting (The Tie) an ugly, starkly naked young couple stood back to back in a puddle, holding hands as if against their will, staring dazedly into the encroaching darkness. Draped around the husband's weary neck hung a tie decorated with a pin-up girl. "Don't think I am making fun," says Koerner earnestly. "The fellow likes his tie-I happen to like schmaltzy music. We're all the same. How can we say that something else...